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Police arrested two of women accused of trying to spend counterfeit $100 bills at businesses around Irvine and then fleeing when authorities caught on to the scam, according to court documents.
The Orange County district attorney's office alleges in a...

Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in the murder trial of former New England Patriot tight end Aaron Hernandez. Hernandez is charged with the murder of Odin Lloyd, who was dating his fiancee's sister. Hernandez is also charged with another double murder...

A Newport Beach man was sentenced Monday to 240 days in jail and five years' probation for firing a handgun at the beach last summer before police shot him.
As part of a plea agreement, Scott Jay Abraham, 44, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of...

The lawyer for a Costa Mesa man accused of double murder said Friday that he will petition the California Supreme Court to consider his attempt to bar an Orange County judge from overseeing the trial.
A day earlier, a three-judge panel of California's...

A man with a gun on the UC Irvine campus called police Tuesday to tell them where he was, officials said, but not before officials locked down the school, including the theater in which the new chancellor was being officially installed.
University...

Requests for public records in politically charged Costa Mesa have skyrocketed to an all-time high, costing the city thousands of dollars and stretching the resources of the city clerk's office, according to interviews and documents reviewed by the...

A driver whom police suspect was on drugs was arrested after a chase through Newport Beach and Costa Mesa that reached 90 mph early Tuesday, authorities said.
Investigators are trying to determine whether Luis Alfonso Rivera, 21, of Huntington Beach...

A neighbor armed with a gun confronted a would-be burglar breaking into a woman's apartment in Costa Mesa on Sunday night, according to police.
Police said the neighbor noticed something suspicious at the apartment complex at 2320 Elden Ave. around 9:...

The driver of a pickup fled after the truck slammed into a house in Costa Mesa on Sunday night, police said.
A Ford F-150 hit a parked car on Meyer Place just before 10 p.m. and the driver over-corrected, causing the truck to jump a curb, smash...

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We are having perfect summertime weather for the start of spring, with the sea conditions very favorable for boating, and many people are offshore fishing.
Everyone who likes to fish should review the current regulations published by the...

A serial burglar who led Costa Mesa on a chase through the Mesa Verde neighborhood last year pleaded guilty Thursday to half a dozen felonies but could avoid being locked up.
An Orange County Superior Court judge sentenced Marc Christopher Marchetti...

Newport Beach police arrested a trio of burglary suspects after a short car chase Wednesday ended with a crash in Laguna Beach, according to authorities.
The incident started in Newport when a resident returned home around 2:15 p.m. and found two men...